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for six years, edited the Temple i Bar ' Magazine, in which his novel a serial in 1864-5; was the first editor of Txnsley's Magazine ; and a constant contributor to All the Tear Round, in which his novel " Black Sheep " was the leading serial story in 18i66-7. His more recent novels are "Wrecked in Port," 1869; " Dr, Wainwright's Patient," 1871 ; " Nobod/s Fortune," 1871 ; "The Yellow Flag," 1873; and "The Impending Sword," 1874. In May, 1872, Mr. Yates retired from the Post-Office in order to devote him- self exclusively to literature. In the course of that year he went on a lecturing tour in the United States, and in May, 1873, he was appointed London representative of the New York Herald, which post he resigned in July, 1874, when he established The World, " a journal for men and women," which has had the most extraordinary success, and of which he still remains sole proprietor and editor. Mr. Yates has been for some time engaged in collecting materials for two volumes of " Personal Reminiscences."
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YEAMES, William Fbederick, K.A., was born in Dec, 1835, at Taganrog, on the Sea of AzofF, South Russia, of which port his father, Mr. William Yeames, was her Britannic Majesty's Consul. The family belonged originally to the county of Norfolk. During the years 1842 and 184-3 the subject of this notice travelled with his family through Italy. After returning to Russia and spending the winter at Odessa, the family went to Dresden, and there remained till the spring of 1848, when it removed to London. Mr. Yeames received his first in- struction in art from Mr. George Scharf, who taught him drawing and anatomy. The young artist also practised drawing from casts in the studio of Mr. J. Sherwood Westmacott. In 1852 Mr. Yeames left England, in order to advance his art-education in Italy; and

studied at Florence, first for two years under the direction of Pro- fessor Pollastrini, of the Florence Academy, afterwards under Signor Raffaelle Buonajuti. Subsequently he spent eighteen months in Rome, and at length, in 1858, he returned to England. In 1859 he exhibited at the Royal Academy a portrait and " The Staunch Friends," a sub- ject-picture of a jester and monkey. In 1861 he was represented there by works entitled " II Sonetto," with illustrative lines from Pe- trarch, and " The Toilet;" in 1862 by "Rescued," a boy saved from drowning ; in 1863 by " The Meet- ing of Sir Thomas More with his Daughter after his Sentence to Death;" in 1864 by "La Reine Malheureuse," Queen Henrietta Maria taking refuge from the fire of the Parliament ships in Burling- ton Bay ; in 1865 by " Arming the Young Knight ; " and in 1866 by "Queen Elizabeth receiving the French Ambassadors after the News of the Massacre of St. Bartholo- mew." In June, 1866, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. Since then he has ex- hibited "The Dawn of the Re- formation," 1867; "The Chimney Comer " and " Lady Jane Grey in the Tower," 1868 ; " The Fugiti\ e Jacobite " and " Alarming Foot- steps," 1869 ; " Maunday Thursday " and " Love's Young Dream," 1870 ; " Dr. Harvey and the Children of Charles I.," 1871; "The Old Pa- rishioner," 1872; "The Path of Roses," 1873 ; " The Appeal to the PodestJi," "Flowers for Hall and Bower," and "The Christening," 1874; "Pour les Pauvres" and " The Suitor," 1875 ; " La Conta- dineUa,""The Last Bit of Scan- dal," and " Campo dei SS. Apostoli, Venice," 1876; "Waking" and "Amy Robsart," 1877; "When Did You Last See Your Father?" 1878; "La Bigolante: Venetian Water-Carrier," his diploma work, deposited on his election as an Academician, 1879 ; " The Finishing 4 c 2

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